collector vs receiver

collector

noun
  • A person who is employed to collect payments. 

  • One holding a Bachelor of Arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent. 

  • A major sewer which collects sewerage from a number of smaller branch sewers 

  • A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection. 

  • A mafioso whose task is to collect protection money from small businesses 

  • The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor. 

  • A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book. 

receiver

noun
  • An official whose job is to receive taxes or other monies; a tax collector, a treasurer. 

  • A person or company appointed to settle the affairs of an insolvent entity. 

  • A person who attempts to return the serve. 

  • Something which receives some substance or object, in a general sense; a receptacle. 

  • The part of a telephone handset contained in the earpiece; (hence) the handset itself; an earpiece. 

  • A swaption which gives its holder the option to enter into a swap in which they pay the floating leg and receive the fixed leg. 

  • A person who receives something in a general sense; a recipient. 

  • The part of a firearm containing the action. 

  • A person who accepts stolen goods. 

  • A vessel for receiving and holding the products of distillation, or for containing gases. 

  • Any of several electronic devices that receive electromagnetic waves, or signals transmitted as such. 

  • An offensive player who catches the ball after it has been passed. 

  • A vessel for receiving the exhaust steam from the high-pressure cylinder before it enters the low-pressure cylinder, in a compound steam engine. 

  • An airtight vessel from which air is pumped in order to form a vacuum. 

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